podszczypywać
Polish edit
Etymology edit
From podszczypać + -ywać. First attested in 1856.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
podszczypywać impf (perfective podszczypać or podszczypnąć)
- (transitive, colloquial) to pinch (to sneakily squeeze someone's skin to show one's interest) [+ w (accusative) = what part of the body]
- (transitive, colloquial, of animals) to hold lightly ine one's maw as a sign of play or aggress (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?) [+ w (accusative) = what part of the body] [+ za (accusative) = by what]
- (transitive, colloquial) to rip off (to tear a bit of something off with one's teeth or fingers)
- (transitive, colloquial, of one's skin) to sting (to be a place where one senses stinging or temporary burning)
- (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to cause a short sensation of stinging, burning pain)
- (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to hurt emotionally by criticizing)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) to pinch from underneath; to pinch from the bottom of something
Conjugation edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- podszczypywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- podszczypywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podszczypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego[1] (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 425
- podszczypywać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego